October Memories
*2010- a trip down the Nile River, Egypt
*Halloween Treat-Or-Treat in the city, running from one row home to another with the sole intention of filling up our pillow cases to capacity. As necessary, we would run back home and get another pillow case.
*Jumping in piles of freshly raked leaves
-Halloween costumes, schoolyard parades and classroom parties. In the evening, we were obligated to visit the nuns at the convent. They gave out crumbs of the leftover popcorn from the afternoon classroom parties.
-Pumpkins, mums, sweaters, the smell of burning leaves, ginger snap cookies, hot apple cider, pumpkin spice latte coffee
-In grade school, Columbus Day was the first day off from school for the year. It seemed as if we had been in school forever by the time this reprieve rolled around. My mother usually took us to the King of Prussia Mall (PA) for the day.
-Pumpkin Ales- beers worth the wait.
-2013- The Halloween Parade in NYC. I thought it would mostly be a drag parade. But small neighborhood groups come together and organize a skill or a theme that is fun and scary.
-1980: Pope John Paul II comes to Philadelphia and the whole town explodes with excitement, good will and joy.
-Friday night football games in the crisp, cool air.
-Homecoming celebrations at Stroudsburg High School. We have a parade. The former homecoming queens come back and so do lots of alumni.
-October 9, 1971- it is Chris’s 14th birthday. He is in 9th grade at Devon Prep. We had plans to go out to dinner. My mother reminds all of us to come home right after school and get our homework done. We have to leave at 530 for our dinner reservation. As he is leaving to go to school, he confesses that he has detention and won’t be home until after 6 PM. We go to dinner without him.
*Halloween Treat-Or-Treat in the city, running from one row home to another with the sole intention of filling up our pillow cases to capacity. As necessary, we would run back home and get another pillow case.
*Jumping in piles of freshly raked leaves
-Halloween costumes, schoolyard parades and classroom parties. In the evening, we were obligated to visit the nuns at the convent. They gave out crumbs of the leftover popcorn from the afternoon classroom parties.
-Pumpkins, mums, sweaters, the smell of burning leaves, ginger snap cookies, hot apple cider, pumpkin spice latte coffee
-In grade school, Columbus Day was the first day off from school for the year. It seemed as if we had been in school forever by the time this reprieve rolled around. My mother usually took us to the King of Prussia Mall (PA) for the day.
-Pumpkin Ales- beers worth the wait.
-2013- The Halloween Parade in NYC. I thought it would mostly be a drag parade. But small neighborhood groups come together and organize a skill or a theme that is fun and scary.
-1980: Pope John Paul II comes to Philadelphia and the whole town explodes with excitement, good will and joy.
-Friday night football games in the crisp, cool air.
-Homecoming celebrations at Stroudsburg High School. We have a parade. The former homecoming queens come back and so do lots of alumni.
-October 9, 1971- it is Chris’s 14th birthday. He is in 9th grade at Devon Prep. We had plans to go out to dinner. My mother reminds all of us to come home right after school and get our homework done. We have to leave at 530 for our dinner reservation. As he is leaving to go to school, he confesses that he has detention and won’t be home until after 6 PM. We go to dinner without him.
-1974- Started Drexel University. I never really liked Drexel and to make matters worse, I visited Penn State just prior to starting Drexel and fell in love with that campus. So I only lasted one year at Drexel and then I transferred to Penn State the following year.
2018- a road trip to TN, KY and WV
2018- a road trip to TN, KY and WV
